Centre asks social networking sites to block 1,208 URLs in 2013

Social networking sites were requested to block these web pages in order to comply with court orders, Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal said in a written reply to Lok Sabha. New Delhi: The government has so far this year asked social networking sites to block 1,208 web addresses, or uniform resource locater, Parliament was informed today. “Social networking sites were requested to block 8,21,352 and 1,208 URLs during 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013, respectively to comply with the court orders,” he added. Indian Computer Emergency Response Team gets requests for blocking of objectionable content from individuals and organisations, which it forwards to the social networking sites for appropriate action, Sibal said.